For the first time in 67 years, Egypt supports Israeli bid at the UN

Egypt made history this week, supporting Israel’s bid for membership in the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs at the United Nations. It was the first time Egypt voted in support of Israel since it backed the 1948 United Nations vote establishing the Jewish nation.

CBNThe vote passed by a wide margin, with 117 member states in favor; 21 abstentions, among them Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, Qatar, and Kuwait; and Namibia the only country opposing the Israeli bid.

“The vote today proves there are some countries who find it more important to bash Israel than to contribute to the international community, like Qatar who abstained on the vote even though it was a vote on its own acceptance to the committee,” the Israeli Mission to the United Nations said in a statement.

In September, Egyptian President Fattah Abdel el-Sisi called on more Arab countries to make peace with Israel, saying the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel has held for nearly four decades despite doubters.

Last year, the unlikely alliance between Israel and Egypt against Hamas, shocked Israel’s critics in the Obama regime.

WSJ Israel and Egypt quietly agreed to work in concert to squeeze Hamas after Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was deposed as president of Egypt in 2013.

When former military chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi rose to power in Egypt after leading the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, Israel found the two countries had a common interest in suppressing the Islamist group that ruled Gaza. They worked to bring pressure on their shared enemy.

What Washington never anticipated was that the two countries would come to trust each other more than the Americans, who would watch events in Gaza unfold largely from the sidelines as the Israelis and the Egyptians planned out their next steps.

Hamas, which ruled Gaza for the past 8 years, came to rely on cash supplied by Qatar transferred through Egypt, with the assent of Mr. Morsi, and on revenue from smuggling goods through tunnels reaching into Egypt. Mr. Sisi rose to power. Israeli officials knew Egypt was as committed as they were to reining in Hamas when Mr. Sisi sent word earlier this year that his forces had completely destroyed 95% of the tunnels under Egypt’s border with Gaza.

Moreover, as an Egyptian nationalist, he saw Mr. Morsi’s Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and its Palestinian offshoot, Hamas, as threats to the state that needed to be suppressed with a heavy hand, the Israeli official said.

Israeli intelligence analysts interpreted Mr. Sisi’s comments about keeping the peace with Israel and ridding Egypt of Islamists as a “personal realization that we—Israel—were on his side,” the Israeli official said.

Egyptian Army delegation spent a week in Israel, met Israeli officials, and toured a number of areas.

The revelation that Hamas was equally abhorrent to Mr. Sisi as it was to the Israeli government spurred efforts to reward him. Israel used its clout in Washington to lobby the Obama administration and Congress on his behalf, in particular arguing against a U.S. decision to cut off military aid to Egypt, Israeli officials said.

“It came at a very formative time for him” and helped cement a trusting relationship between friends who realized they were vital to each others’ national security, he said. In Gaza, there was shock at the events unfolding in Cairo.

U.S. officials didn’t agree with what they saw as Mr. Sisi’s theory about Hamas threatening the Egyptian state. They feared his heavy hand against Islamists in Egypt would drive them underground and might set off a civil war. The criticism only deepened the bond between Mr. Sisi and Israel, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

An Israeli flag flutters next to an Egyptian one at the Nitzana crossing as Israel has deployed hundreds of intelligence agents on its southern border with Egypt to combat the growing threat of attack from Jihadist groups in the neighbouring Sinai peninsula.

Egypt secretly coordinated with senior Israeli officials led by Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad, the director of the political-military affairs bureau at Israel’s Defense Ministry, who is known in the Israeli security establishment as the “granddaddy” of the Israeli-Egyptian channel, Israeli officials said.

Mr. Gilad and other Israeli officials shuttled between Israel and Egypt and spoke to their Egyptian counterparts by phone. Officials said the two sides spoke every day, more often during crises.

U.S. officials, who tried to intervene in the initial days after the Israeli-Gaza conflict broke out on July 8 to try to find a negotiated solution, soon realized that Mr. Netanyahu’s office wanted to run the show with Egypt and to keep the Americans at a distance, according to U.S., European and Israeli officials.

When a tentative deal finally came together in Cairo to stop the fighting, Washington found itself outside looking in on the Israeli-Egyptian partnership once again.

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I can see another Libya-Syria style attempt at regime change coming from Obama before he leaves office. This story probably has blood vessels popping out of his head. All the work he’s done and the billions he’s spent to enflame the middle-east and promote the global caliphate and he’s not going to let anyonee mess it up.

this in spite of obama who wanted his muslim brotherhood friends to rule this country could have a peaceful path as long as there is no back stabbing from the next us president lets hope its not another lefty islamist loving commie like obama and they have a backbone and not a yellow streak israel must be backed at all times no ifs or buts, israel is i believe the only ray of light in the darkest place on earth and protects us all as she is in the frontline at all times

We need to get a petition going urging Paul Ryan to invite President al-Sisi to address Congress like Netanyahu did. Either that or send him a message on Twitter or Face/book-do both. But do it, please.

Apollospeaks you might have to change your screen name to Apollo WEEPS. Surely all the great Greek Gods must be …… seeing the infestation of Muslims to their wonderful Country that gave SOOO MUCH to Western Civilization.

Don’t be fooled by El-Sisi’s regime’s cozying up to Israel. El-Sisi is a grandmaster of Taqiyya — the best there’s ever been, I might add.

As an Egyptian Atheist, I assure you that Egyptian Infidels are still subject to harassement and horrendous persecution by the Egyptian security apparatus. Granted, being an Infidel in Egypt is not as horrible as it was under Morsi, but still I’m always looking over my shoulders outside my apartment.

Your comments are interesting Ramez. We must never for get to trust a muslim can prove dangerous. Atm Egypt sees Israel as its best possible protector from the Brotherhood and the assorted nightmare of the Islamist groups infesting the earth. But they are still muslims. I remember the verses saying ‘if you make a treaty with honourable infidels than do not attack them until after the holy months’ or some such sentences. But Egypt couldnt defeat Israel. They would have to face Russia likely as well.

You’re a grade A ignoramus. Sisi is a Muslim. Copts/Christians and all non Muslims in Egypt are but second class citizens that could never reach positions of much importance in the Egyptian government. ….and most certainly not the Egyptian military.

This is another slap in the face for obama that no doubt will have future implications for Israel and Egypt, the Narcissist in the White House will not like this.

According to the Guardian, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi won 96.1% of the votes in Egypt’s presidential election, with 47.5% of Egypt’s 53 million eligible voters voting.

Inspite of this, we are still being told that it was corrupt and that he is a Tyrant and a Dictator, WHY?

Because he doesn’t represent the views of obama?

Because he is executing obama’s muslim brotherhood?

Look at the crisis in the world today, in every country where America along with it’s UN Puppy Dogs, including the UK removed the so-called Tyrants and Dictators, we have Civil Unrest, Terrorism and Mass Migration INVADING EUROPE.

Gadafi and the like may have been nasty people, but at least they were containing the muslim SCUM.

Why should we have been concerned over these cockroaches being exterminated like cockroaches?

All that America and the UN acheived was to break the barriers holding these savages and allowing this infestation to invade and destroy the rest of the world.

I would rather al-Sisi contain these vile creatures than have obama let them loose on us like the plague we are suffering today.

Angry, Obama and other Western leaders ADMIRE and LOVE ISIS, Al Qaeda and other Muslim Terrorists. Gaddafi was fighting AGAINST Al Qaeda. This was unacceptable to Obama and other Western leaders. Gaddafi was a Huge SAINT compared to these traitors.

US/NATO fought a ruthless war for months against the innocent Libyan people and Gaddafi. US aircraft hunted down Gaddafi and were responsible for the violent, barbaric sexual and physical attack and murder on Gaddafi by the Muslim terrorist savages that US/NATO backed.

Gaddafi had been cooperating fully with the U.S. but that was irrelevant to American, British and European leaders who lust after Blood, War and the Destruction of countries.

I prefer Russia’s Putin one hundred million times more than our Traitor Western leaders who disgust me.